Are you a student of Chemical Engineering and want to work in a team to develop sustainable solutions for future material supply?
Join the 2024 edition of the Eurecha Student Contest Problem 2024, sponsored by AVEVA!
The contest is organized by the European Committee for the Use of Computers in Chemical Engineering Education (EURECHA), with support by the CAPE Working Party and the Energy section of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. It is open to students from Bachelor through PhD level.
The participating teams will use computational methods to design and analyze a novel process converting carbon dioxide and renewable energy into chemical products. The awards include monetary prizes, invitations to present at the European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) in Florence, Italy, or the CAPE Forum in 2024, and publication of the results!
Results of the SCP2023 (year numbering has been updated due the submission deadline being now in April). These reports are made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
1st Prize – Production of Olefins from Carbon Dioxide and Renewable Energy
Nadia REDA, Zoé DECKERS, Jean-Jacques COLARD, Denis William ATEAJEU TCHIO and Maurine HENNUY
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
The prize was awarded at Escape Conference 2023 (Athens, Greece).
Anziel Malandri, Daria Kozyr, Haditya Kukuh Purwanto, Maximilian Bloor, Noof Al Lawati
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
The prize will be awarded at Cape Forum 2023 (Sept 6-8, 2023, Porto)
SCP 2021 – Description of the SCP2021
Results of the SCP 2021
1st Prize – CO2 Utilization under Intermittent Electricity Supply: Sorption Enhanced DME Synthesis with an Integrated RSOC Process
Jannik Bothe, Johanna Güttler, Mathis Heyer, Dion Jakobs, Jan Pavšek
Aachener Verfahrenstechnik, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
The prize was awarded at Escape Conference 2022 (Toulouse, France).
2nd Prize – Direct Dimethyl Carbonate Production from Carbon Dioxide and Methanol
Loris Baggio, Martin Govaert, Bernard Marchal, Antoine Rouxhet
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
The prize will be awarded at Cape Forum 2022 (TU Twente, The Netherlands)
SCP 2020 – Description of the SCP
Results of the SCP 2020
1st Prize – Mobile on-Demand (MOD) mRNA Vaccine Production: A Design and Optimal Location Study
Steffen Fahr, Lukas Thiel, Carl Sengoba
Aachener Verfahrenstechnik, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
The prize was awarded at Escape Conference 2021 (Istanbul, Turkey).
SCP 2019 – Description of the SCP
Results of the SCP 2019
1st Prize – A Path to Sustainability: Green Hydrogen Based Production of Steel and Ammonia
Michael Moritz, Jan Raphael Seidenberg, Maximilian Siska, Marc Stumma, Song Zhai
Process Systems Engineering (AVT.SVT), RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
The prize was awarded at Escape Conference 2020 (Milan, Italy).
2nd Prize – Feasibility study of low-carbon ammonia and steel production in Europe
Justin Fraselle, Alexis Donceel, Marc Philippart de Foy, Jean-Luc Hoxha, Mathieu Caspar and Remi Poncelet, University of Liège, Belgium
The prize was awarded at Cape Forum 2020 (Denmark).
SCP2018 – Description of the SCP
Results of the SCP 2018
1st Prize – Preliminary design of the green diesel production process by hydrotreatment of vegetable oils
Javier Moreno Fernández-Villamil and Aurelio Hurtado de Mendoza Paniagua
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII UPM)
The prize was awarded at Escape Conference 2019 (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
2nd Prize – Production of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil as an Additive for Petro-Diesel
Robert Kiefel and Jannik T. Lüthje
Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
The prize was awarded at Cape Forum 2019 (Liège, Belgium).
SCP2017 – Description of the SCP
Results of the SCP 2017
1st Prize – Screening and Optimal Design of CCU Processes using Superstructure Optimization
Flemming Holtorf, Luise Bering, Andreas Vellguth, Daniel Felder, Pascal Padberg
Aachener Verfahrenstechnik – Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
2nd Prize – Carbon CO2 Reuse in Direct DME Synthesis from Syngas
Alba Carrero Parreño, Juan Diego Medrano García, Natalia Quirante
Institute of Chemical Processes Engineering, University of Alicante, PO 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
SCP2016 – Description of the SCP
Results of the SCP 2016
1st Prize – CO2 Separation, Transportation, and Sequestration
Jannik Burre, Adrian Caspari, Johanna Kleinekorte, Lukas Mertens, Artur Schweidtmann
RWTH-Aachen University, Germany
SCP2015 – Description of the SCP
Results of the SCP 2015
1st Prize – Provision of facilities
Božidar Aničić and Tibor Kuna
Faculty of chemistry and chemical engineering
University of Maribor, Slovenia